# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1878_S24
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...synodical convention and today. He has given the professors grace
for the right and faithful exercise of their office; with his help a
whole number of teaching candidates could again be released from the
institution and placed into the service of the Church. He has granted
that the spirit prevailing among the students has remained throughout
a Christian and godly one. The state of health at the institution has
on the whole been good and gratifying. In sum, God has shown himself a
faithful and gracious God toward the institution, at which 112
students receive daily instruction this year.

It has long been the Synod's wish that a practice school might also be
connected with the institution. It was partly for this reason that an
orphanage was built in the immediate vicinity of the seminary building,
in the hope that such a school could be formed from its children. This,
however, has not so far been possible, for various reasons. The school
congregation at Addison has now kindly granted permission to use its
school for this purpose. Four half-hour periods weekly are therefore
now held there, in which the seminary students conduct practical
exercises in the presence of the professors concerned. Should this
arrangement, made for now only as a trial, prove itself useful, it
would be very desirable for the school congregation at Addison to
continue making its school available to the seminary in this way in
the future as well.

Resolved, that the dear school congregation at Addison be given
heartfelt thanks for making its school available for the purpose of
offering the seminary students an opportunity to learn by teaching,
but that the request also be added at the same time that the
congregation continue to make its school available to the seminary in
the future, whenever it seems useful to the professors.

Since it must without doubt be of very great benefit to the seminary
students to attend the instruction of an experienced schoolman and,
through their own hearing and seeing, to gather a store of practical
knowledge for their later term of office, and since ample opportunity
for this is offered them at Addison itself:

Resolved, that it be left to the teaching staff to consider this
matter and, as time and circumstances permit, to make use of it
according to their best judgment.

At its convention in Quincy in 1876, the Illinois District of our
Synod was presented with the question: "How should the professors of
the institution conduct themselves when requests for assistance from
seminary students reach them?" The committee elected for this purpose
reported the following to the Synod, which was adopted by it: "1. The
lending out of students to congregations runs counter to the main
purpose of the teachers' seminary and can easily create great